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Prof. Malouin has been a full professor (microbiology) in the Department of Biology at the University of Sherbrooke's Faculty of Sciences since 2000. He is a microbiologist with over 30 years of experience in academic and industrial antibiotic research for humans and farm animals. He was recently a member of the Institut national de santé publique du Québec -INSPQ's Committee of Scientific Experts on Antibiotic Resistance (CERA) (2011-2015), a committee that makes antibiotic resistance recommendations to the provincial government. He currently serves on the scientific committee of the Canadian Research Network on Bovine Mastitis and Milk Quality (2015-2021) and the executive committee of the Strategic Group FRQNT Op + Lait (Research group for optimal milk quality ). As an external scientific representative, he also serves on the scientific committee of the affiliated international laboratory "Bioproduction of natural antimicrobials" (LIAAN). The LIAAN is a collaboration between the INAF (Laval University, Quebec) and the Charles Viollette Institute (University of Lille, France), a regional agrifood and biotechnology research laboratory. From 2009 to 2017, Prof. Malouin was a member and chairman of the University of Sherbrooke's patent committee. He is currently the chairman of the Faculty of Science's animal protection committee. His research at the University of Sherbrooke focuses on the use of virulence genes in bacteria to develop new antibiotics, antibiotic alternatives, and vaccines. His research focuses on Staphylococcus aureus and its resistant forms, MRSA, as well as small colony variants (SCVs), which produce large amounts of biofilms and are linked to intracellular, persistent, and recurring infections in humans and animals. Other targets include carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae and he uses phytochemicals as a source of new antibiotics. He is co-author of >100 scientific publications (ORCID number 0000-0001-5031-345X) and co-inventor of more than 20 patents (delivered or pending). |